Garment-measure



(No Model.)

S. S. START, Jr. 85 M. A. S. JOHNSON. GARMENT MEASURE.

Patented' Aug. 27,1895.

NITED STATES PATENT FFifi I SAMPSON S. START, JR, AND MAY A. START JOHNSON, OF LUVERNE, MINNESOTA.

GARMENT-MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,139, dated August 27, 1895.

Application filed July 2, 1894. Serial. No. 516,366. (No madelJ To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMPSON S. START, J r., and MAY A. START JOHNSON, citizens of the United States, and residents of Luverne, in the county of Rock and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Measures, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and reliable device for measuring garments, which may be easily adjusted by unskilled persons upon the body, and a perfect fit and set determined for each part of the garment before the device is removed from the body, the measurements thus determined being fixed or established upon the device with sufficient permanence to enable the material to be cut the required size and patterned without risk of error in reading or marking down the measurements.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of our improved garment-measure complete adjusted to conform to the shape and measurements of the body, and Fig. 2 is a perspective of an adjustable slide of novel construction adapted to hold a number of measuring-tapes together in adjusted. positions.

A garment-measure for dress -bodies, as herein described, consists of tapes A, stays B,

1 slides O, and buckles D, combined, adjusted,

and held together in the following-described manner.

The tapes A are all made of any suitable or preferred material, and are each marked and numberedwith a scale of equal parts from a fixed point, which is a point of beginning and attachment for each part of the device and of a corresponding part of the garment.

The stays B are made of light strong fabric stitched to the tapes at suitable points to hold them together in skeleton form to suit the shape of the garment.

The slides O are made of sheet metal in a novel manner to hold two or more adjacent or cross strips and admit of their adjustment one upon the other, and which also serve to mark upon the scales the measurements determined by the adjustment.

The buckles D may be of any well-known or preferred construction, and are secured to one end of the said tape in a fixed position and adjustably secured to the other end of said tape to fit the measuring device to the body, and also to record or mark the position upon the scale to indicate the measurement required upon each tape.

The back-length tape A, front-length tape A and shoulder-tapes A A are all connected to the neck-tapeA The tape A is connected by a slip-loop a at its upper end, and the tapes A A A by being stitched to the neck-stay B, andthe latter is cut to snugly fit and conform to the front portion of an ordinary 0r medium-sized neck. The front-length tape A is also stitched to the neckstay B and neck-tape A, and the ends of the said necktape A are ad j us'tably secured together by a buckle D which, when adjusted, determines upon the scale of the said tape the neck-measurement, the neck-tape when adjusted serving to hold all of the parts above described and their connections pendent therefrom.

Slip-loops a upon the ends of the shouldertapes A connect one end thereof with armhole-tapes A A. Buckles D upon said shoultier-tapes determine the length of the shoulder upon said tapes, and buckles D upon the ends of the armhole-tapes mark upon the scale of said tape the size of the armholes.

Armhole-stays B B are stitched to the armhole-tapes A A", and also to the upper ends of the side-length tapes A A, which latter are pendent therefrom, and are adjustably secured, together with the back-length tape A, upon a waist-tape A by means of slide 0, hereinafter described, which determines the length upon the scales of said tapes, and are also secured upon said waist-tape A together with the front-tape A by means of a combined buckle and slide D upon the waist-tapeA the adjustable position of which determines upon the respective tape-scales the length of the front and the size or measurementof waist.

A bust-measurement tape A passes through slip-loops a in the upper ends of side-tapes A at their points of attachment to the arm-holestays B and armhole-tapes A", and also passes through the slide C at the back, through which the back-length tape A also passes,

and aslip-loop a at one end'of the bust-tape permits the front-length tape A to slide therein and be adjusted thereon to indicate upon the tape-scale the front measure to the bust, and the combined buckle and slide D upon the end of the tape A also indicates at this point the bust-measurement upon the tape A and holds said tape and its several connections at the front together in their adjusted positions.

A back-measurement cross-tape A is made in two parts, each having a slip-loop a at its outer end for adjustment upon the armholetapes A, one of said parts having a buckle D and the other part having a scale of equal parts marked thereon for measuring and adjusting the device tothe back of the body to tape A", and has a scale of parts marked thereon, and the other part, a, has a buckle D which raises the part ca upon the part a to indicate the length of the back of the arm, and also to raise the elbow-tape A a corresponding distance. The elbow-tape A is secured to the back-tape A by the elbow-stay B stitched to said tapes, and a slide C 0011- meets the front-arm tape A with the elbowtape and marks upon the scale of the fronttape the distance therefrom to the armholetape A. A buckle or, as shown in the drawings, a pin d holds the elbow-tape to the proper measurement indicated upon the scale. The wrist-measurement tape A having a slip-loop (1 fitted upon the back-arm-length tape A and a slide D adjustable upon the front-arm-length tape A, to indicate the length thereof upon the scale of said tape, and a buckle or pin 01 to indicate upon the scale of the Wrist-tape the size thereof, completes the devices necessary for a dress-bodymeasuring device, although any additional numberof tapesmaybeemployed and attached to the various band-tapes to indicate the position of rufifles, capes, and other attachments or trimmings, as may be required.

For garments other than a ladys dress-body various modifications of the devices hereinbefore described will suggest themselves.

lVe claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The tape A and the stay B to which the tape is secured, combined with the two arm tapes, the stay B secured to the two tapes at the elbow, and the tapes A A, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMPSON S. START, JR. MAY A. START JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

O. S. BRUoE, JOHN KELLEY. 

